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Hog-Tied (The Transferring of Sophanareth Sok) Journalist Boston Woodard tells us what is happening inside the prison industrial complex....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 6:53pm PDT
Free the Jena 6: SF Oct. 2nd Rally (video/quicktime 33.8MB) Demonstrations to Free the Jena 6 were held across the country on Oct. 2nd. In San Francisco people met at Mission and 7th St. to hear Luis Talamonte, mesha Monge-Irizarry, the United Players (UP) and others.
Part 1: Two-minute QT movie. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 1:51pm PDT
Ban on Public Assemblies in Public Parking Lots at City Council Next Tuesday Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's latest attack on the Constitution is a new local law. It will expand a bad law passed last year to ban lingering in a city parking garage. Coonerty's expansion will ban all those not parking a car or auto from all downtown city parking garages and now all downtown city parking lots. It will be coming to City Council for a first reading on the afternoon of Tuesday October 9th. soon after 3 PM. No more Food Not Bombs or Drum Circles on Wednesday. Cars, yes. hum...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 11:21am PDT
Bookshop Santa Cruz Demo 
Photos of the educational leafleting, picketting, by HRO and HUFF, and Know Your Rights street theather by DYI in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz, kicking of the first day of Homies for the Homeless Camping Ban Sleep-Out on Aug. 12, 07 at Santa Cruz City Hall. A protest that was to last only one night with hopes of talking with Mayor Riley. The mayor refused to meet with the protesters, changing her appointment process to exclude them. The protesters persisted for six nights before police fo...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:11pm PDT
Tasers Go Mainstream, But Who's Talking About Race Editor’s note: Recent incidents involving police use of Tasers against unarmed citizens—especially the tasing of Florida college student Andrew Myers at a John Kerry event on campus—have brought the weapon into the national spotlight. But on the ground, Tasers were already a hot-button issues, with coalitions in cities across the country objecting to their disproportionate use on people of color....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Justice for Gary King Jr.: 10/3 Protest at OPD Please join us to protest the murder of Gary King Jr....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 5:51pm PDT
Contaminated Courts? The Strange Case of Craig Canada, Homeless Medical Marijuana Patient 
Homeless blogger and medical marijuana patient Craig Canada thought he'd won a historic victory in the Santa Cruz Superior court of Judge Denine Guy when she found him not guilty of "sleeping outside" because of his need to use medical marijuana. Two months later she reversed herself without explanation. Who got to her?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:33pm PDT
The Art of Political Murder: The Hidden Side of Central America in the 1980s World Affairs Council Auditorium
312 Sutter St, SUITE 200
San Francisco, CA 94108...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:02pm PDT
All Out for ILWU Protest Rally at Yolo County Superior Court All Out to Defend the two Local 10 Brothers Assaulted by Cops in the Port of Sacramento!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 5:29pm PDT
Funeral For Gary King Jr. 10/2 Please see below for funeral information and upcoming events to protest the murder of Gary King Jr....
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 11:51am PDT
DPF's Upcoming Events and Newsletter You're invited to read the latest issue of Death Penalty Focus's newsletter, The Sentry, in .pdf format.
And we hope you will attend our upcoming Membership Appreciation Breakfast which will be held on Saturday, November 3rd in San Francisco! More details are available below.
Did you know that DPF's Speaker's Bureau enables experts, including wrongfully convicted individuals, to travel and speak to students, religious groups, and civic and political leaders? They are powerful messeng...
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 10:34pm PDT
Guilty Verdict in Eric McDavid Case` This evening the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of United
States vs. Eric McDavid....
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 7:44pm PDT
Weekly demonstrations against the murder of Gary King Jr. See schedule below for weekly demonstrations seeking justice for Gary King Jr....
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 2:41pm PDT
Religious, Civil Rights, and Child Advocacy Groups Support Same-Sex Couples in Legal Battle to Marry Wednesday, September 26, 2007 : SAN FRANCISCO - In 30 amicus briefs submitted today to the California Supreme Court, scores of religious, civil rights, and child advocacy organizations, along with numerous California municipal governments, bar associations, and leading legal scholars, urged the court to put an end to state laws that deny same-sex couples the protections of marriage....
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 7:26am PDT
Eric McDavid Court Report, Days 8 and 9 Court report from days 8 and 9 of trial (September 25-26)...
Posted: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 10:47pm PDT
Eric McDavid Court Report, Day 7 (Sept. 24) Court report from day 7 of trial...
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 8:49pm PDT
Misperceptions Dominate Debate Over Gang Injunctions Tuesday, September 25, 2007 : Though widely hailed as a proactive approach to handling gang-related crime, gang injunctions are not quite as advertised. Yet the positivity surrounding the injections has hidden more frightening perceptions behind the strategy. Thankfully for discussion’s sake, the Examiner’s conservative columnist Ken Garcia articulated the sort of right-wing attitude that opponents of the gang injunctions have most feared—language more reminiscent of the rhetoric surrounding...
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 6:56am PDT
Protest Against Police Murder of Gary King Jr. 
On Monday, September 24, over 100 family, friends, neighbors and other concerned people protested at Oakland City Hall against the murder of 20-year old Gary King, Jr....
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 11:00pm PDT
FREE CHIP FITZGERALD! Parole Hearing Sept. 26, 2007!!! 
Chip Fitzgerald, the longest Black Panther member in captivity, is up for parole THIS THURSDAY, Spetember 26, 2007. Spread the word for Chip's freedom!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 12:18pm PDT
Photos Of Memorial for Gary King, Killed By Oakland Police September 20th 
On September 20th, a policeman shot and killed a man on the street in North Oakland. Gary King had just exited a store on the corner of 54th street and MLK. Apparently a police officer approached him for questioning. The details of what happened next are unclear, but it seems that it involved the policeman using a taser. King pulled away and it appears that during his attempt to flee, the officer shot him twice in the back. A memorial with candles and personal items is set up at the place whe...
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 8:40pm PDT
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